Our Taxdollars at Work
In an attempt to improve the image of Kazakhstan, the akim is finishing up building a model of Astana on Google Earth! Surely they have better things to do with their time.
However a group of developers who claim to be independent, are working on Second-Life Astana, a model of Astana on the popular website Second Life. I find it hard to believe that they are proceeding or will proceed without any comment or input from the powers that be. After all, if I were to make a virtual Astana from my point of view, it would not necessarily be the most pleasant place to live. So I can’t see these guys being left unsupervised.
Anyway, check out the developers website here
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The current 3D buildings within Google earth are of quite a high quality, I wrote about them last year over here. Certainly better than some of the ones created for Britain.
In case anyone is interested, you can access an ‘aeroplane’ mode in Google earth, and fly around the satellite maps, to give you a better feeling for distances etc. I’ll double check, but I think you need to press Ctrl+Shift+A to enable this mode. It was originally hidden as a sort of beta feature, though the latest version may have it directly accessible from the menu?
Comment by ChrisM — 5 March 2008 @ 2:30 pm
Thank you
same for blogs
Comment by Yemek Tarifleri — 26 March 2008 @ 2:10 am